It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.
Good marketers tell a story.
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work
There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.
Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.
I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.
I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.